He was born July 10, 1924, to Jesse and Ethel M. Hewitt Howard in Marvin, Okla.

He married Anna Jean Hampton July 12, 1946, in Shawnee, Okla.

He then married Celia F. Winkler St.Clair Jan. 14, 1978. She survives.

He graduated high school at Macomb in 1943.

He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the U.S. Navy as quartermaster aboard the USS Boreas. After his discharge, he worked for several different pipeline companies, building pipelines from Texas to California. He worked for Northern Natural Pipeline Co. as shift operator, foreman and welder more than 30 years retiring in 1984. He worked for many local farmers on his time off.

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